Silent Hill

[Loa4ever]

Hi guys,

I want to know if in this forum we have Silent Hill fans . If you are one please rise your hand! *Loa raise her hand* Alright as fans tell me what do you think about the franshise. Do you think is in good hands? Is the way you like so far? Do you think they are making the series good enought for your enjoyment? Or you have a different opinion and thinks now the franshise sucks?

 

My person opinion as a recent fan I think they lost the concepts of the series. I admit I just played so far the second Silent Hill and my gods what an amazing and mature game, I never played such deep game in my life making me in the end crying. But I intent to play the first and the third, after that I'm not sure. The recent games... I feel like tehy don't really care about the series just the fame of the title. No, I'm not saying they shouldn't make Silent Hill series but you see... the people behind that don't even know what are doing. Do you remenber the monsters of Silent Hill? Why they were there? What they have to do with the characters? Pyramid Head the must famous monster icon in this franshise, a well done monster which I love and hate in same time XD. But the most abused monster in the series... figure why.

Even if the new peopel come up with new concepts which is alright, do you think it will make the same impact as the others?

[stumpy]

the one thats mainly set in one room is very hard, lots of puzzles to solve. The later ones have become more like first person shooters, dumbed down puzzles, the last one I played had silly spawn rates and wouldn't let you leave an area until everything was eliminated and was full of game bugs, rubberbanding monsters when there bones got stuck, or monster pathing problems. and was more irratating than scary. the majority of monsters in the last one I playered were miners and dogs.

[AngelWolf]

It was one of my alltime favorite series. The first one gave me and a female friend of mine some really epic nightmares. The only problem I had with it was the vagueness of the plot. 2 had a much better story. 3 continues the story of part 1 and is the basis of the new movie. It's about the baby girl that Harry found in the good ending of the original, all grown up. 3 was nice because it started outside of Silent Hill and made good use of a shopping mall. 4 was......different. I thought the plot was clever because it's about a guy who is trapped in a cursed apartment that used to belong to a serial killer from Silent Hill. He finds holes in the walls that lead him to locations within the killer's memories, but his actions seem to be having a mirror effect on the reality outside the apartment. It leads the player to believe that while he is playing thought the levels, the serial killer is taking over his body. It was pretty creepy but it felt a bit rushed. After that I played Origins on the PSP and found it to be more like 2 and 3. Nothing truly memorable, but not terrible either. And then there was Shattered Memories for the Wii. It had some nice graphical effects as we actually get to see the world transform in real time. It also made very good use of the speaker on the Wii remote when you use a phone in the game. What I didn't like is that they removed combat completely. You spend the nightmare sequences running for your life, using motion gestures to knock stuff over to slow down your persuers. Be prepared to do the same areas over and over because you didn't run the right way and got cornered. I haven't played Homecoming, but from the low reviews, I don't really have much interest. They wandered too far off course.

 

Now if you want to play a modern game that's more like Silent Hill 1, 2, and 3, check out Alan Wake. It plays out like a Stephen King mini-series, and is about a writer who goes into the woods of Washington state for a vacation with his wife. He wakes up after a car accident and finds he has no memory of the past week. But as the game progresses it becomes clear that during the blank memory he wrote a new horror novel and a dark entity is bringing his fiction to life. It's like Silent Hill in the woods. You run around with a flashlight through a mountain logging town, going through logging camps and mines fighting an assortment of possessed people armed with axes and vehicles like bulldozers that come to life. The enemies are shrouded in shadow which protects them from your weapons, so you have to shine your flashlight directly on them for a few seconds to burn off the shadow. You can also drive vehicles and mow down enemies with your headlights. All in all I found it to be what the newer Silent Hills should have been and a blast to play through. Making your way through a dark logging camp as a storm whips the trees back and forth was pretty creepy. Especially when I came to a small office trailer and saw a cutscene of a bulldozer come to life just outside the window and start driving towards the trailer.

[SeriousToni]

I played Silent Hill 2 and saw the movie. I must say it is areally great game showing us a world / life of forsakeness and doom.

[Xarg]

Alan Wake was pretty good, though the ... expansion?, Alan Wake's American Nightmare, was somewhat disappointing, even though it was basically just an episode of that TV show that plays on the TV's you can watch in Alan Wake. As far as Silent Hill goes, I only ever played a bit of the first one on the Playstation, and even back then, the graphics kinda killed it for me, which is funny since I still love Soul Reaver.